Slovenia

Slovenia is a nation state in southern Central Europe, located to the east of Italy, to the south of Austria, to the southwest of Hungary, to the northwest of Croatia, and to the northeast of the Adriatic Sea. With its capital at the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia is a mountainous and heavily-forested country located among the eastern Alps, and it had a small population of 2,064,188 people in 2016. Slovenia was once a part of the Roman Empire, Holy Roman Empire, and the Austrian Empire, and Slovenia became one of the constituent socialist republics of Yugoslavia during the Cold War era. Slovenia gained its independence on 25 June 1991, maintaining its status as a secular republic. In 2016, Slovenia was the richest per capita of any Slavic country in terms of nominal GDP, and second behind the Czech Republic by GDP.